Category: ECo Research
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Bridging Continents and Currents: How Water and the Environment Shape Georgetown’s Global Leadership
For Dr. Raha Hakimdavar, it all began with water. As a child, it was “her first fascination,” and she first began ceremonially collecting rainfall in pots and pans in her-…
February 13, 2026
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High Seas at Risk: Study Finds Global Fisheries Governance Lagging Behind What’s Possible
A new paper published in Environmental Research Letters led by Dr. Gabrielle Carmine, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University’s Earth Commons Institute, offers an…
December 4, 2025
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Event Recap: ECo Talks Fall 2025 Kicks Off at the Capitol Campus
The Fall 2025 ECo Talks series launched on Friday, September 5, with a full house at Georgetown’s Capitol Campus and an engaged Zoom audience. The kickoff was a huge success…
September 11, 2025
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How Ants Respond to the Cicada Boom: Georgetown’s Martha Weiss Leads NSF-Funded Research
Every 13 or 17 years, the forests of the eastern U.S. erupt with the buzzing of billions of periodical cicadas emerging in synchronized cycles. These events bring a sudden,…
February 27, 2025
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Georgetown Students, Faculty Take on the Very Big World of Microplastics
Their field work was part of a year-long study led by Jesse Meiller, Co-Director of the BS in Environment & Sustainability who specializes in microplastics, in partnership with…
May 1, 2024